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1 deputy killed, 1 injured in Monday morning inmate escape

An inmate shot and killed one deputy and injured another after escaping from the Pottawattamie County Jail on Monday morning

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1 deputy killed, 1 injured in Monday morning inmate escape

An inmate shot and killed one deputy and injured another after escaping from the Pottawattamie County Jail on Monday morning

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WEBVTT THE COUNCIL BLUFFS COMMUNITY ISNOW EXPERIENCING MANY OF THEEMOTIONS CENTRAL IOWA WENTTHROUGH IN NOVEMBER WITH THELOSS OF SERGEANT ANTHONY BEMINIOAND OFFICER JUSTIN MARTIN. REPORTER MICHELLE BANDUR HASTHAT PART OF THE STORY. >> THE MOST TOUCHING MEMORIALHERE.THIS IS WHERE DEPUTY MARKBURBRIDGE CAME TO WORK THE PAST12 YEARS AND WHERE HE DIEDEARLIER IN THE DAY IN THE LINEOF DUTY.PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PLACING FLOWERSAND MEMENTOES ON TOP OF THE LONECRUISER DRAPED WITH A BLACK FLAGAND THIN BLUE LINE.A SOLEMN TRIBUTE OUTSIDE THECOUNCIL BLUFFS POLICE DEPARTMENTAND COURTHOUSE.MANY FEELING NUMB HEARING OF THELOSS.>> I DON'T THINK THE EFFECT HASREALLY BEEN FELT.IT IS STILL FRESH.>> OTHERS LINING WEST BROADWAYAND WAVING AMERICAN AND POLICEFLAGS.>> WHETHER YOU KNOW THEM OR NOT,THEY'RE PART OF YOUR HOME.THEY'RE PART OF YOUR TOWN.>> SAY THANK YOU.IT CAN HAPPEN IN AN INSTANT.TODAY WAS A NORMAL TRANSPORTING.NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, ANDIT HAPPENED.>> HOLD YOUR FAMILY A LITTLE BITTIGHTER TONIGHT.THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SOMETIMESGETS TAKEN FOR GRANTED.>> THE SHERIFF IS THANKING THECOMMUNITY FOR THEIR SUPPORT.HE SAYS HIS DEPARTMENT WILL NEEDIT IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS TOCOME.MICHELLE BANDUR, NEWS WATCH

1 deputy killed, 1 injured in Monday morning inmate escape

An inmate shot and killed one deputy and injured another after escaping from the Pottawattamie County Jail on Monday morning

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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa —

An inmate shot and killed one deputy and injured another after escaping from the Pottawattamie County Jail on Monday morning.

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Deputies Mark Burbridge, 43, and Pat Morgan, 59, took two prisoners from the Pottawattamie County Courthouse to the Pottawattamie County Jail.

As the deputies began to transfer the prisoners into the jail, Wesley Williams Correa Carmenaty, 23, assaulted both deputies, according to a news release from the Council Bluffs Police Department.

Correa Carmenaty grabbed one deputy's firearm and shot both deputies. He fled in the Pottawattamie County Jail transport van, driving through the closed garage door attached to the jail.

Wesley Correa Carmenaty

At the intersection of 16th and Big Lake Road, he stopped the van and attempted to steal an S-10 pickup truck, the release said. Correa Carmenaty confronted the driver and ultimately shot the 30-year-old man. The man was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Correa Carmenaty abandoned the transport van at 2500 Avenue I a few minutes later.Amy Kanger, 31, was driving a black 2015 Nissan Sentra and saw the van. She stopped to see if anyone was injured. Correa Carmenaty kidnapped her at gunpoint, the release said, and forced her back into the Nissan. He released her around 11:15 a.m. at the R & L Liquor Store at 5825 N. 30th St.

Omaha police followed an unmarked vehicle that Correa Carmenaty was driving. A high-speed chase ensued and ended at the I-480 South entrance ramp.Correa Carmenaty declined treatment for injuries.

He was booked into the Douglas County Jail on charges of kidnapping, use of a weapon to commit a felony, felon in possession of a firearm, felony operating a vehicle to avoid arrest and fugitive from justice, the release said.

He was previously jailed on charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and first-degree robbery.

According to Iowa court records, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday to 55 years in prison.

Schools in Council Bluffs were briefly placed on lockdown during the incident.Morgan, a 10-year veteran of the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Department, was taken to a nearby hospital and is listed in fair condition. Burbridge, a 12-year veteran of the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Department, was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died of his injuries.